Only Cold Roses

September 4, 2011 3:46 PM

What could I possibly love more than Ryan Adam's Cold Roses?

I am in a sad state in my life. And I love listening to Cold Roses. I love everything about it, I love Magnolia Mountain and Sweet Illusion and Cindy Cashdollar and the desperation and intensity of it all.

I've listened to everything Ryan Adams has ever recorded and for me, nothing comes close to the greatness of Cold Roses.

Can anyone please recommend something that might even come close? It's all that is soothing me right now.

posted by Pademelon to Media & Arts (12 answers total)

I also like Ryan Adams, though I prefer Heartbreaker to anything that came after it (not that nothing that came after it is good). Check out The Meadowlands by The Wrens. It's not really like Ryan Adams, but it's a truly fantastic album. Every track on it is pretty great, but some standouts for me include 13 Months in 6 Minutes (this track is the most country-adjacent thing on the album), Ex-Girl Collection and even the last track, which has a great little story behind it -- it's one of the bandmembers, Charlie I think, coming home drunk after his girlfriend dumped him, starting up a tape recorder, and sitting down to a piano and recording the album version of the song in one take.
posted by axiom at 4:16 PM on September 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

You've listened to Whiskeytown, too, right?

My other recommendation is Hold Time, by M. Ward.

I love Cold Roses, too. I hope this helps.
posted by veggieboy at 4:17 PM on September 4, 2011

try Wilco, Drive-By Truckers, or Lucero
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 4:19 PM on September 4, 2011

You could never love any album better than Cold Roses because there isn't one. FACT. (Meadowlake Street! Amirite?)

That said, maybe some somber Alison Krauss tunes might do it for you?
posted by pised at 4:23 PM on September 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travelers
posted by dirtdirt at 5:49 PM on September 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

I feel like I should contribute something to this, but sadly I don't have any good recommendations.
posted by RyanAdams at 6:36 PM on September 4, 2011 [7 favorites]

i looked at my play count to help you with this. up there with cold roses is:
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
The Frames - The Roads Outgrown
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
posted by camdan at 9:23 PM on September 4, 2011

I had an album do this to me once. And in all these years, though I've enjoyed other music, nothing has ever come close to taking me to the place where The Trinity Session takes me.
posted by marsha56 at 10:42 PM on September 4, 2011

You really should check out my future husband (I wish) -- from X right on through today -- John Doe.
posted by thinkpiece at 4:24 AM on September 5, 2011

Sea change by Beck?
posted by cynicalidealist at 3:56 PM on September 5, 2011

Grace by Jeff Buckley - not country-esque, but it definitely has a similar, beautifully melancholic feel.
posted by guessthis at 5:50 AM on September 6, 2011

From Mr. Guster4lovers:

O by Damien Rice
Magpie by Stephen Fretwell
White Ladder by David Grey, but Life in Slow Motion is good too.
Plans by Death Cab for Cutie

I'd add:
the Postal Service album
The Photo Album (Death Cab)
Some Devil (Dave Matthews)
Lost and Gone Forever (Guster)
posted by guster4lovers at 8:22 PM on September 6, 2011